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||: f-9 A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XV. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1879. No. 39. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, Ax Newberry, S. C. BY THO&, P. GRENEKER, Editor and Proprietor. rerans, s.OO per .ipnu , Lnvariably in Advance. .,, The paper is stopped at the expiration of jinae for which it is paid. w7 The >4 mark denotes expiration of sub cription. clothin. HEAD - QUARTERS FOR - CLOTHING. -er- stock of Men's, Youths' and Boy's CLOTriNG -AND EUPRTISH111G GOODS, ad SUMMER, 4is now com too, i-verond.o nue blishment. of the kind in the State. No pains is being sparedtokeep,it first class in every respect. In addition to our Ready-Made Clothiog, &c., we.are prepared to get up suits, or any garment, to order, guaranteeing satisfaction in ever jrt;ielai, furishing several hun dred samples of differeit fabrics from which to select. We.rep,ectfull solicit a, tri4 of our skill in this dfredtion, feeHng sure 'tnat ifhst-of-our people who are wont to send Ea6d :fa~ their Clothing -will give us an opportunity we will secure to them equal aatisfaction and save them money. We cal ztention to our Furrishing Gent esiec to our Laun dried and Unlaundried Shirts, of the latter we claim to sell the best $1.00 Shirt to be fund.in any market. Also to our stock of -e6'sfgdrBoy'% Hats, eTnbacig gtiff and Soft Cassimeres, Mackinaws, Lqghorus, &-c., a of the latest syles. We invite examina-. tion vf if you are not-.pleased do not buiy. R espectfully, No. 4 Mollohon Row, eMWBERRY, S. C. Apr. 23, 17-1y W*atch4es, Clocks, Jewelry. I have now'oY' hand a lare and elegant assortment of WATChES, CLOCKS, JEWEL.RY, Siiver and Plated Ware, * O@HN AND GUITAE STRINGS, SPECTACLE AXD SPECTACLE CASES, WEDDINS AW B1IRTDAY ~PRESENTS; -IN ENDLESS VARIETY. All orders by mail promptly attended to. Wachmaking and Repairing 'Dond Clieaply anid with Dispatch. Call and examine my stock and prices. EDUARD SCH'OLTZ. Nov. 21, 4'7-tf. M!RHANT TAILORING, COLUMBIA, S. C. The undersigned has the best appointed eclusive TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT - N THE STATE. FRENCH AND ENGLiSH COTH AND CASSMRE2 MILITARY TRIMMINGS, TILORS' TRIMING. None but First Class Work men Employed. W.a SWAFFIELD, ACE NT. Ap.1,16-6m. BRIAL CANE KR,0.0HAMAN &80N Respectfully announce tiet they have on hand the largest and best variety of BU RIAL CASES ever brought to New berry, consisting of l'isk's Metalic Cases, Embalming Cases, RnQciIxTnAd 0 Jfiscellaneouis. TUTT'S PILLS are extracted from Vegetable products, combining in them the Mandrake or May Apple, which is recognized by physicians as a substitute for calomel, possessing all the virtues of that mineral, without its bad after-effects. AS AN ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE they are incomparable. They stimlatO the TR%FD LIVER, invigorate the NERVOUS SYSTE, and give tone to theDIGESTIVE ORGANS,creatingper fect digestion and thorough assimilation of food. They exert a powerful influence on the KIDNEYS and LIVER, aiZd through these organs remove all inipuri ties, thus vitaizing the tissuesof the body and causing a healthy condition of the system. AS AN ANTI-MALARIAL REMEDY They.have no2ual; and asaresult act as a *a ventive andce gorgmiou,Iy miitm4 - 1. itent,cTyphmid Fev .ndF&verandAgue. Uponthehealt action of the Stomac, depends, almost wholly, the health oE tly human race. DYSPEPSIA ISTHE BAN E of the-present generation. It is for the Cure of this disease and its attendant; SICK-HR ADACKE, NERVOUSNESS, DES PNDENCY, CONSTIPATION, PILES, &C.; that ,U"TS PILLS bave gaied iuch a wide s*readreu tion. No Remedy has ever been discov ered that acts so speedily and gently on the digestive organs giving them tohe and vigortoassiMriatefood. This bbing accomplished, of cotase the NERVOUS 'SYStEM 1S BRACED, THE BRAIN IS NOURISHED, AN TiE 80Y ROQJIST. Being womposed ofthe juices of plants extracted by powerful chemical agen cies, and prepared in a concentrated form, they are guaranteed free from any thing that can injure the most del icate person. A noted chemist who has analyzed them, says " TEMt IS KEE VIVTUE IN ONE OF TUTT'S PILLS, THAN CAN BE FOUND IN A PINT OF ANY OTHE" We therefore say to the aMicted TythisRelpedyfairly, It will not harm you, you have nothing to lose,but wlll surely gain a Vigo rous-Body, Pur9 Blood, Strong Neres an d aceerful Mnind. PrInie O)fBe, .Murry St., N. Y. Sold ..by Druggists throughout the world. TUTT'S HAIR DYE. Ofce 35rf M ra St., Iew York.. OLD AND RELIABLE, D&. Sar'oiu's IsvER IN-VIGOATOR is a Standard Family Remedy for iseases of the Liver, Stomach * and Bowels. -It is Purely.1 1 Vegetable.-It never ~ Debilitates-It is~m Cathartic and IT* 6'0 0.9 00~ \Io' \0 \aThe h"as been uised - -~~ myi? practice and bvy the public, fk~ 9for more thani 2.5 y-ors, NEW Y0RK SOPPING. Established. Reliable. Everything bought with taste and dis retion. N. Y. Correspondent of HERALD onnected with this Agency. Send for cir cular with prices. Best city references. Address MRS. ELLEN LAMAR, 877 Broadway, New York. A pr. 9, 15-tf. ISTON DINNEI iO[SE. Passenters on both the up and down trains have the usual time for DINNER at Aiston, the junction of the G. & 0. R. R., and thc S. U3. & C. R. R. Fare well prepared, and the charge rea sonable. MRS. M. A. ELKINS. Ont 9, 41 -tf. THE E IPTY CRADLE. Sad is the heart of the mother, Who sits by the lonely hearth, Where never again the children Shall waken their songs of mirth; And still through the painful silence She listens for voice and tread, Outside of the heart-there only She knows that they are not dead. Here is the desolate cradle, The pillow so lately pressed, But far away has the birdling Flown from its little nest. Crooning the lullabies over That once were her babe's delight, All through the misty spaces She follows its upward flight. Little she thought of a moment So gloomy and sad as this, Whben close to her heart she gathered Her child for its good-night kiss. She should be tenderly cherished, Never a grief should she know; Wealth, and the pride of a princess, These would a mother bestow. And this is the darling's portion In heaven-where s"-.- has f.ed; By angels securely guarded, By angels securelv led. Brooding in snrrowful silence Over the empty nest, Can you not see through the shadows Why it is all for the best? Better the heavenly kingdom Than riches of earthly crown, 1 etter the early morning flight Than one when the sun is down; Better an empty casket Than jewels besmirched with sin; Safer than these without the fold Are those that have entered in. THE TWO RUTHS. -0 Enoch Brown was the school master of the settlement. Ho was a tall, angular man, very stern in his demeanor, ex ceedingly exemplary in his con duct and of undoubted courage. The schoolhouse was situated on a lttle knoll in the woods, and a purling brook wound its way lazily through the meadows which bad beern cleared along its banks by the settlers. It was a rude wooden structure built of logs and rudely and uncomfortably fur nished. Archie McCullough, a bright faced boy, quick and intelligent, was the youngest child in the school, and Master Brown's favor ite. One beautiful morning in summer-it was in July, 1764-to be particular, on the 20th day of the month-he came into the sbool-room beaming all over with smiles and bappy as the day was long. Master Brown had already arrived, had swept out the school house, dusted the desks and benches and put everything to rights. "Why you are early, Archie," he said to the child, with a smile, as the young lad entered with his broad brimmed straw hat in his hand and his tiny dinner basket on his arm. "Yes, sir," the boy answered timidly but respectfully, "1 always like to get to school early, but some of the boys don't want to come to-day. I saw one of them in the woods and he said ho was going to play hookey." "He must be a bad boy, Archie," the master said. "Who was he ?" "He asked me not to tell, and I was not a good promise to make, my child," Master Brow n replied, "but having made it you must keep it. It is as bad to break your word as to tell a lie." The child hung down his head and was silent. Presently he looked up and running to the door, said : "Here comes the two Ruths." Two little girls entered. Ruth Hall and Ruth Hart by name, smiing at Archie and curtseying to Master Brown as tbey came into the door. They were tiny things, about the same age both of tbem, and might have been mis taken for twins but for the fa miliar manner in which their names were occupied by tbeir companions, the "two Ruths." Other children followed coming in one by one and tardy, until nine bad assembled. With the exOcp tion of the two Ruths all were boys, and none of them seemed anxious to begin the duties of the ".Has any body seen Eden Taylo: and George Dunstan this morn in,(-?"the master asked. Eden was the biggest boy ir the school, being about fiftec years of' age, and George was year or two younger. Nobod3 had seen either of' them, but jus then they entered the school roory toretrier looking very pale an( thoroughly frightened. "We saw Indians in the bushes,* Eden . exclaimed, gasping foi breath, and George corroboratec the alarming news. Dime noveh were not published at that day as at this to excite the imaginatior of children, so that Brooklyn boy are occasionally found wandering in New Jersey in search* of In. dians, but stories of Indian mnssa, cres were often told and the hunt ing grounds of the Shawanesc savages in the Kitrochtinny moun tains were near enough to EnocL Brow n's school for those relen tlo*s foes of the whites to put in ap peorance at any time. "You must be mistaken, boys,' the master argued, remembering that similar stories had often been told by alarmed inhabitants which proved in the end to be without foundation. Take your 'ooks and we will proceed with the lessons.' A short prayer was made bv Master Brown and then the work of the day began. But scarcely were the opening exercises fin. ished when a noise at the door at tracted the attention of the teach. er. Suddenly it was thrown open and three Indians stood on the threshold. They were decorated with the war paint of their tribe and their towahawks glittered in the morning sun. They glared in to the room and Master Brown saw at a glance that their errand .vas an errand of death for bim and the helpless children undei his charge. Consternation seized the chil dren, who were too much fright ened even to try to escape. But even if they had tried they could not have succeeded, for the long narrow windows cut between two l>gs were so high from the floor that the little ones could not have reached them. B.oping to save their lives even at the sacrifice o. his own, Master Brown stopped tc the dooi- to trip and avert the im. pending blow. "Kill me, torture me if you will." he cried in imploring tones "but spare the lives of these in, nocent children." "Pale face, it cannot be as yoi wish,"one of thbe savages answere d "We came all the way from the muntains where the sun sets tc send you where many of your wite brothers have gone by th< Red Man's hatchet. Why shoulc we spare the young bucks and th< two hinds there looking out o: their great, round eyes ? If wi did as you bid us, before the flex1 moon is hung, in the sky the noise of the white man's gur would be heard in the mountain: and there would bo tongues t< tell who it was that put th< schoolmaster to death. No, w< must kill all or none." When this speech was finishec the Indian sprang into the roon: while the others remained outsid< to guard the door and give timnely notice to the fiend within in cas< they were discovered. The con test with the schoolmaster was soon decided. Thbe Indian fiercely attacked him with his tomahawls and as Master Brown had noth ing with which to defend himsel: but his hands the battle was very unequal one. He fougb bravely, however, and it was nol until both his hands were disable< and his arms broken that the fu rious savage was able to strik< im a fatal blow. Finally a blow upon the head felled him to th< floor, and while he lay dying th< L.dian tore the scalp from hit skull. The children were almost frantil while this bloody scene was enact ed and kept running to and fr< in their fright, conscious of thi fate that impended over themi Some oak and hickory boughs hat been placed in the great chimnne2 a few days before. and althougi they were already wilted an< naly ry,v A r-hie MCunllno-] r succeeded in concealing himself behind them. The two Ruths huddled together in a corner and vainly hoped to escape the fury of the savage. "Now, little pale faces," the r monster exclaimed, when the mas t ter lay scalped and dead on the floor, "the Indian will see that you tell no tales out of school, as the white man say." The little ones were then killed one by one, each being dispatched 1 with a single blow of the toma hawk. When all lay dead or dy ing, their scalps were torn off by the savage monster, who went hastily from one to the other fear ing discovery before his bloody - task was ended. All this time Archic McCullough sat behind the wilted boughs in the chimney, looking in childish wonder at the horrible slaughter of his old school-mates. Think ing his work was finished the In dian turned to go, and in a mo ment the child would have been safe from the fate that.befel his companions. Unfortunately for Archie the boughs behind which he was hidden did not entirely con coal him, and as the savage gave a last glance at his bloody achieve menthe perceived the boy conceal ed in the chimney corner. it would not do to allow the only witness of his crimes to escape, and with maddened fury the savage rushed upon the child. "Oh, please, don't hurt me." Archie implored, but the savage was relent!ess. A fearful blow laid the child prostrate, and tearing off his scalp also, the Indian left him to die among his dead companions. The savrges departed from the scene of the massacre, and for bours Archie McCullough was left with only the companionship of the dead. Scalped and stunned the child survived, but was stone blind. A settler happening to come near the schoolroom about noon, and observing the unusual quiet at a time when it was to be ex pected the children would be at play, was led to look in at the door. SThe scene that met his gaze bafilee description. Ten lifeless bodies lay stretched upon the floor. Archie McCullongb, moaning and crying, was crawling about among his dead companions, run ning his fingers through their hair, and smoothing his hands over their faces as if seeking to distinguish them by the touch. The man lorked in grief and won der upon the death scene which met his eyes, and while he looked the child touched in succession the forms of the two girls. S"Thbe two .Ruthbs," be exclaimed, crying with grief and moaning with pain. The children were taken up and buried in the same grave with Master Brown, and the whole ncighbbo1 hood participated in their obsequies. There w'as a vacant place at ten hearthstones, for each of the murdered scholars belonged to different families. Although more than a hundred years have elapsed since the massacre, the story is told in the neighborhood of what is known as Brown's Scool-bouse to this day, as the most noteworthy tradition of the locality, and it certainly is one of the most terrible episodes of In dian marauding on the early fron tier. Archie McCullough lived to be an old man, but his sight never treturned, and the bright intelli gence of his childhood had de parted forever. A mumbling imn becile he would often try to de scribe the terrible scene which had razed his brain, and to the last day of his life he would moan and cry over the faute of "the two Ruths." SHow many or us can thank God - for what seems evil, rejoicing in it, feeling while not seeing that he has sent it because we need it ajid -cannot be as Ho wills without it. r Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of character-even that of disinter i ested ness. Iistellnu0ns. A SUGGESTION. We have not space in the Reg ister for in extended tale ; but we have evolved an idea for one, which idea we are too unselfish to withhold from a waiting public because we cannot get all the glory of it. If some skillful pen will but fill in this bare outline with rich rhetoric and vivid im agination, not only will some "in-! terestin'readin'" be produced, but a great moral engine will be sent' the world to accomplish great good. We should, perhaps, en title our romance 'A BRAND FROM THE BURN ING; OR, THE DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBER'S SALVATION.1 We would introduce the first chapter with a picture of the here tofore honest and prosperous far mer's happy home. The angel of peace dwelleth there, and the country paper comes to his post office box every week. Having been supporting this county paper for some four years without paying for it, he is sur prised one day to get a polite note from the publisher to cash up. In dignant at being du ned, he re solves to punish the base insulter of his dignity by beating him out of the whole bill. Ah. rash re solve! 'This, this, the source of all thy ills !' As delay makes his fatal pur pose manifest, direful consequences follow ; his friends fall away and recognize him no more; the wife of his bosom deserts him and files an application in a Chicago police court for divorce ; his daughter elopes with a lightning-rod ped dler and his best horse and buggy ; his son, losing all self-respect in his father's degradation, goes to the city and enters politics; his cattle start on 'a journey to the centel of the earth,' through a neighboring quagmire ; his hogs die of cholera; his corn yields on ly tassels-all mankind and na ture seem to conspire his ruin. Job had his comforters, spiritual and. human; but 'what ebarm shall soothe the melancholy' of the wretch who bears upon his soul the purpose of defrauding the trustful editor ! CHAPTER 2.-At last, deserted by all but his faithful dog (who has been kept in ignorance of the facts of the case), our delinquent resolves to end his bitter existence by suicide. (We suggest to the previously-mentioned skillful pen that the scene here should be very gloomy-dark cliffs, stormy sea, blood-red sun, etc.) Just as he is about to drain the fatal draught (or shoot the fatal shot, or stab the fatal stab-we also leave this to the tasto of the filler-in)-the spirit of mercy, willing to give thbe old man another chance, inspires within him the thought-'Suppose I pay the printer, and all may yet be well!' Seizing the idea with avidity, and the dog by the collar, he hies him to the neighboring town. Realizing there thirteen dollars from the sale of this faith fu;l animal, he repairs to the edi torial sanctum, pays his arrears and, for a year in advance, and has enough left to 'set 'em up all around.' His atonement is com plete, and he walks forth once more 'a man among his fellow men.' (The editor's astonishment and joy at being possessor of eleven dollars all at one time should be artistically pictured.) CHAPTER 3 shows the inevitably happy result of this Christian ac tion. Fortune smiles broadly up on him once more-his wife with draws her divorce suit and re turns to his arms; the eloping lightning-rod peddler turns Out a wealthy Russian count in dis guise, and restores to our farmer the lost broad acres; the son abandons political life and be comes once more a respectable citizen ; his kmne wax fat, and his wheat fields yield some sixty and some a hundred-fold. The scene closes with a bright picture of the prompt-paying subscriber's happy fireside. If the aboen sketch, graDbically delineated and broadly puiblished, does not rouse many a delinquent conscience into action, then is all moral suasion vain, and the butt end of the law our only recourse. [Printers' Register. "ROASTEN" YEARS. Roney and Buttermilk-How they Doubled Billy Up. BY BILL ARP. I took the green corn dance about midnight and the small of my back caved in, and from then until daybreak, I never sot up, nor lay down, nor stood still a mo ment. Doubled up and twisted and jerked around with excrucia ting .pains, I cavorted all over one ide of the house, for we had some Atlanta company on the other, and my groanings were worse han a foundered mule. It was ust awful to behold and awfuller to experience. Spirits of turpen ine, camphor, hot water, mustard plaster, mush poultice, paragoric, Jamaica ginger were all used ex. Wernally and internally, but no re lief. I trotted around and paced and fox-trotted and bugged the bed-post and laid down and rolled ver on the floor like a bundred dollar horse, and my wife, Mrs. Arp, she trotted around too, and dosed me with this thing and that thing and bad the stove fired up and hollered f)r hot water forty times before she got it. 'I told you not to work so hard in the sun,' said she. 'Oh, Lordy,' said I. 'I asked you to. change yqur clothes as soon as you came to the house and you didn't.' 'Oh, my country,' said I. 'Don't wake up the company,' she continued. 'And you would eat them roasten:ears for supper. Did ever anybody bear of a man eating roasten ears for supper and then wash 'em down with butter. milk and honey?' 'Oh, my poor back,' said I. 'Do you reckon its your back ain't it further round in front ? 'Oh, no,' said I., 'its everywhere, its lumbago, its siatiker, its Bright's disease, it's Etna and Vesuius all mixed up. Oh, I'm so sick, can't nobody do notbin' ? 'Poor fellow, poor William, I'm so sorry for you, but you will wake up the company if you don't mind. I'm doing everything L-can. You've taken enough things now to kill you. I declare I don't know what to do next, all thie comes from movin' to the country, five miles from the drug store or a doctor. I told you how it would be-plumbags and skyattiker and a bright disease, and the Lord knows what, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you had the yellow fever fo boot-caught it tramping around Memphis, and its just broke out. Poor man, if he does die what will become of us? But if e gets well he'llego and do the same thing over again. Don'1 grunt so loud. I declare yot make enough noise to wake up a graveyard. I never saw snch a man. Here, try this mush poul tice. 1 thought that water woulc never get hot. Does it burn you 'Oh, yes ; it burns, but fire is noth ing now ; let it burn*' Oh, I'm st sick. Bring me the paragoric oi the laudanum or something.J can't stand it ten minutes longer, said I. 'There ain't a drop left. You.'ve taken it all. There's nothing bul chlorophorm, and I'm so afraid oj that; but maybe it will reliev< you, William. My poor William ow 1 do hate to see you suffel so, but you will never do as I tel you. Do please don't wake up th company.' Well, I took the chlorophorr and went to sleep-to the happy land-all-blessed relief, and vrher 1 waked I was easier, and in du< time was restored to my norma condition. If a man be gracious to stran gers it shows he is a citizen of thE world, and that his heart is nt island, cut off from other lands but a continent that joins them. The test of extraordinary meril is to see those who envy it-th( most obliged to praise it. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of S1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertion and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent. on a bove. 'Notices of meetIngs, obituaries and tribut< s of respect, same rates per square as ordinay advertisements. Spec%ial Notices in Local column 15 cent s per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will Ie kept.in till forbid, and charged accordingly. Special contractg- made with -tge adver. tisers, with liberal deductiops on above rates. JOB PRINiTL.7VG DONE WITHT NEATNESS AND DISPATCH TERMS CASH. THE CHILDREN OF GEN. HOOD.-A number of protlnit Southern gen tlemen, including Dr. A. Y. P. Gar nett, of Washington, Gen. G. T. Beauregard and Hon. Randall Gibson, of Louisiana, Senator Hampton, of South Carolina, Governor Matthews, of West Virginia, and Gen. Joseph R. Anderson, of Virginia, have issued an appeal for funds in behalf of the orphaned children of the late Gen. John B; Hood. W%ilst-making the appeal more especially to the people of the South upon the ground of duty as well as sympathy, the appeal states that it must not be understood as wishing to confine so-noble an object to any one section of -a common coun. try. In order to systematize and in. dicate some practical scheme, it is proposed that collections be taken up by every Sunday school and. all: benev olent associations throughout the South; that contribution boxes be placed. at all post-offices, drvg stores and principal places of. business in every city and village ofeaeh South era State, and that the funds thus col lected be placed in soine 0onvenient bank or banking hue to the credit of an executive committee or board of managers, composed of the Governors of the several States of. the South, who shall have charge-of and. disburse all moneys thus colleeted for thbe main. tenance and education of these chil, dren.o Gen. Robt. Toomnbs hazs eon tributed $100ito the innd for the Hood children, and says he will give the. same amount annually .as long -es he lives, and a sympathizing lady in Rome, Ga., has offered to take-the twin infants and raise them. Mr. G. B. Lake, of Edgefield, is not willing Wat Col. F. W. MeMaster, should claim all the honor of keeping Grant back at the Crater. He claims that other commands. bore no mean part in the work. Mr. Lake writes to the News and courier as follows : 'As one of the few surviving officers of the 22d S. C.. Volunteers, I.feel it my duty to mention the fact that the, 22d Regiment, commanded by the gallant Col. Dave Fleming, was im mediately about Pegram's Battery on that awful 30th of July, instead of August, and that we suffered more than any other Confederate Regiment that day. I was first lieutenant, and in command of Company B, from Spartanburg. I had one officer, Lieut. W. J. Laki, of Newberry; and thirty, four enlisted men immediately in rear of Pegram's Battery-sent there to support these guns. Every one of us was buried by the explosion of those four tons of powder. Lient. W. J. Lake, three enlisted men and myself were dug out of the dirt by some .of the Federal troops (members, I think, of a New York Artillery Regiment,) after they had taken possession of the works. The other thirty-one men were killed. 'Cok' Fleming was buried fully twenty feet under the dirt and is the now. While the regimens was re5 fully cut to pieces, there was a small band of heroes left, who. fought des perately and were among the first to re-errter the crater and drive ouit the enemy. THE LONGEST BEARD.-A citizen of Gaffnaeys, S. C., who saw a state ment published some days ago con cerning the man in Michigan who has a beard seven feet long, comes forward with a story almost as good. The proprietor of an extraordinarily long hirsute appendage is Mr. A. D. Ray, of that town. Mr. Ray is represented as a very modest, unassuming man, so much so with a reference to this mat ter of beard that even his neighbors do not know that he can justly claini such distinction. His beard measures five feet four inches. How does he conceal it ? He keeps it plaited, rolled in oil silk, and undcr his shirt collar, with the upper beard so arranged as to conceal the plaits. Only a.few per sons have been permitted to look upon this wonderful beard, but our infor mant once had that pleasure, and he